Donald Trump Quotes

Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'

Most of us don't look at investment in a win-win situation. You have to give in a little bit; you have to take a little bit. Most feel everything has to be rinsed out for closing of the transaction.

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.

I know where I'm putting my money.

If I'm on the board of any company where there's an offer that comes in, I want to negotiate.

At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

Deal-making goes on with any job.

We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.

Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

Recesses [in negotiations] allow positions to become entrenched.

It’s hard to cut a deal if you don’t know who to make a deal with.

When you sit around with a Britisher, he usually gets 80 percent of the deal

President Trump promised to negotiate trade agreements to get better deals for America and protect American jobs. Bottom line: He delivered.

When you negotiate a deal, you clearly know a lot about the other person.

You don't help the economy by spending money.

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.